Franny Billingsley

“Some secrets are wrong and ought to be told.”

— Franny Billingsley

“How true, lamentably true. I’m sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself.”

— Franny Billingsley

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

— Franny Billingsley

“Forge ahead, O mighty enforcer of the law. May you be stout of heart and eardrum.”

— Franny Billingsley

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

— Franny Billingsley

“I’d rather be in Hell with my soul and wits, than in the outside world without them.”

— Franny Billingsley

“Storybook events come in threes. So, it seems, does Hell.”

— Franny Billingsley

My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.

— Franny Billingsley

“Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.”

— Franny Billingsley

Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do…

— Franny Billingsley

Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate…

— Franny Billingsley

“I've been thinking," said the Eldric image. "Ooh, thinking!" I said. "Shall I tell your father?" "Very funny," said Eldric, but he…

— Franny Billingsley

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

— Franny Billingsley

“My feet are wet,” said Mr. Dreary. “You lack the proper gear,” I said. We teetered along a trickle of land that…

— Franny Billingsley

The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil. 'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't…

— Franny Billingsley

“Eldric wore his lazy lion’s smile. He didn’t mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person.”

— Franny Billingsley

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to…

— Franny Billingsley

“I very much like Kristin Cashore's books. I like Catherine Fisher's Incarceron ; it may be a bit more complicated then the…

— Franny Billingsley

“This is the difference between Eldric and me. Had it been my job to transform the garden, I would have removed the…

— Franny Billingsley

“For four years I have been wearing blinders. I thought all this time I walked a path of cobblestones, and it turns…

— Franny Billingsley

“I explained we lost the porch to the flood. 'Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter.…

— Franny Billingsley

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was…

— Franny Billingsley

I am entirely well,” said Eldric, “which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being…

— Franny Billingsley

“Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be…

— Franny Billingsley

“I’m not like that fellow who thought it a far, far better thing to trade his life for that of another. I’m…

— Franny Billingsley

“I was going to ask him, yes I was. “You remember Blackberry Night?” The torches were alive with yellow butterfly-flames. “I can’t…

— Franny Billingsley

“...And then it occurred to him to wonder whether you actually knew what a seduction involves. The details, I mean. I spread…

— Franny Billingsley

“I've confessed to everything and I'd like to be hanged. Now, if you please. I don't mean to be difficult, but I…

— Franny Billingsley

“I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and…

— Franny Billingsley

“Wearing a cloak is on Rose's list of the thousand things she hates most. The problem is that each of the thousand…

— Franny Billingsley

Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

— Franny Billingsley

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

— Franny Billingsley

It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.

— Franny Billingsley

I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.

— Franny Billingsley

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please

— Franny Billingsley

“Briony scared?” said Eldric. “I’ve never seen anyone less scared in my life. She has nerves of iron.”

— Franny Billingsley

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

— Franny Billingsley

“There is one disappointment that has come with turning sixteen. I seem to be starting to grow.”

— Franny Billingsley

“A person might get angry when the girl he loves says she'll never marry.”

— Franny Billingsley

“I love you. I believe it. I believe I am lovable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole…

— Franny Billingsley